Tana Libolt and West Magoon, owners and founders of Muddy Mountain Pottery, design and create “functional stoneware pottery.” Based in Centennial, Libolt and Magoon sell to buyers all over the region and are vendors at the Laramie Farmers Market in the summers.

“We have quite a few different things that we make,” says Libolt. “My partner, West Magoon, makes a lot of specialty kitchen items like butter keepers, honey pots, he makes teapots, he even makes a style of infuser teapot with a ceramic strainer basket. I make puzzle mugs which are based on a historical vessel that can be found all the way back to ancient Greece. We also make dinnerware, mugs, bowls, and plates”

Libolt explains where she and Magoon sell their work. “We sell at a lot of local shows… The [Laramie] Farmers Market and the local craft shows. We do sell wholesale to other businesses. For instance, we make yarn bowls and we sell those to Cowgirl Yarn in Laramie…West makes mugs with rope handles and we have a buyer in Arizona and she attends a lot of medieval reenactments. We sell some there because they fit in with the time period.”      

Libolt and Magoon began professionally making pottery, and started their business, Muddy Mountain Pottery around 1999. “My father was a potter and a sculptor, and he ran a pottery shop in Jackson, Wyoming in the 1970s. So, I have been around a pottery studio most of my life. West was a photographer and silk-screener he was interested in going into 3D art from 2D art and I taught him how to throw on the potter’s wheel”

Muddy Mountain Pottery also sells handmade raku beads and pendants, and one-of-a-kind ceramic raku ray gun sculptures. You can buy Libolt and Magoon’s Pottery and artwork on Etsy or by contacting Muddy Mountain Pottery on their Website. “For us, it’s a way to have a little more independence, and we have an avenue for creativity”

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